There are two new crochet patterns added to our Patterns page.
These are made to fit my Tiny dolls.
The first pattern is for a dress with a rounded neckline and lace skirt with a pinapple pattern.
The second is a matching petticoat.
Both patterns include a written pattern as well as a diagram.
I hope you’ll have fun with it.
/Lillith
After a lot of work and a heroic effort by JennyM there is now a place for patterns asociated with this blog. You find the link to it in the upper right corner.
Here we will add patterns for things to make that will fit the Lillim dolls, but you are of course welcome to use the patterns to craft items for similarly sized dolls as well.
We start out with a few crochet patterns for my tiny girls Milly and Betty.
The patterns here are free to use for personal projects, but are not intended for commercial use. I humbly ask that you respect this and I hope you find the patterns useful.
Happy crafting!
I am happy to present these two.
They are both home cast in polyurethane resin and they share the same body and headcap, only their faces are different.
First out is Betty.
And here is Milly
Note: Millys teeth are not in the sculpt, but simply painted into the gap in the mouth. A shadow line there instead would make the mouth look closed.
Images of the body from different angles:
Additional images of the body in various poses:
Height: 23cm
Eyes in pictures: 6mm oval glass flat back. (8mm eyes with small iris will work as well.)
Head circumference: 11cm
Waist: 9cm
Bust: 10cm
Hips: 11cm
Foot: 32mm x 14mm
I think I speak for most of us when saying that the past year was not the best in human history.
I’ve realized I had come to rely on the deadlines of conventions. With everything cancelled or postponed, things pretty much stalled.
Last spring, when there still seemed like the was a chance of at least some events happening I did cast a couple of my tiny dolls and while I have had a good time playing around with them for myself and getting to know the quirks of their bodies, I never really took any good photos and never presented them as finished.
Now, if we didn’t know it before, the past year have taught us that things never turn out as intended and even the best of plans can fall flat, but despite that I will take the risk and tell you a little about what is currently planned for the year to come, trusting whole heartedly in you discretion to not take this too seriously or hold it against me when it fails. Deal?
All right:
1. Good pictures of the tinies needs to happen and be published. I have no excuse for why this has not happened yet.
2. At least a few artist cast of these tinies need to get on to my Etsy shop as to be able to say that they are in fact available for purchase. This is a bigger deal than it sounds like as I still don’t have packaging materials figured out for them, but it needs doing.
3. I have started work on a boy torso option for the minies. The upper torso parts will be interchangeable, making it possible to make a small busted girl as well.
4. I wouldn’t be an artist if I didn’t get sidetracked, so I have also started another doll project. Those of you who hang out on DoA already knows about this one, for the rest of you; I’ll present him here when is gets to a presentable stage.
5. Patterns! I intend to start making some patterns that fit the dolls I make available through this blog.
Doesn’t sound too bad, as far as to do lists go, right?
May 2021 be a good doll year for us all!
/Lillith
And here they are!
Betty:
Milly:
They are both shown here wearing the same pair of 6mm flatback oval glass eyes. Ignore the black elastic, it’s just there to hold the back of the head in place as there are no magnets installed pre-cast.
Hello everybody.
I just wanted to break the silence by telling you that I am about to begin the moldmaking for two tiny ladies called Betty and Milly. They will use the same body and the complete doll will stand about 25cm tall.
Better pictures will hopefully come later, but for now, here is Betty:
Just a quick post to thank everyone for a very nice con.
The exhibition was amazing, as usual and it was lovely to see all the creativity and lovely dolls. The sales room was packed with pretty things and skilled crafters.
Thank you all again!
And, because I managed to forget to take any pictures at all, the only thing relevant I have is this photo of the mugs I made and donated as lottery prizes.
The past weekend we visited Aarhus in Denmark and the danish doll convention DollConDK run by Danske BJD Entusiaster. We had a wonderful time. The market area was filled with wonderful things and the exhibition was very impressive. The hole place was dripping with talent and packed with friendly people.
We had our own talble in the market area, selling a few things.
Here you see JennyM attending the table.
We both had dolls from our private collections on display in the exhibition and to my great delight (and surprise) I won fist prize in the MSD category with this display:
The doll on the left is the one that won the prize. She is an Iplehouse Tania dressed in a traditional oufit from c:a 1900 from the region in Sweden that I’m from.
A big thank you to everyone involved with this convention and a big Hello to everyone I met there!
/Lillith
I have been working on something of a side project.
It’s an optional arm part for the Basil body, in the shape of a fully jointed tentacle.
This part will fit any similar socket, so it should be compatible with a wide range of dolls.
I plan to cast it in house and sell it through my etsy shop.
That’s all for now, take care and doll on.
/Lillith
Hello.
Things have been quiet here for a while and there is a reason for that. I have bought a house! While it’s not going to be time to move in for some time yet, this will cause my doll hobby to be forced to take the back seat for a while.
The good news for my doll making is; that I will be able to set up a much better work space and hopefully some equipment for better casting in the future.
It will also mean that I am far less restricted to what hours of the day I can work without disturbing my neighbors, and that’s always a plus.
So, how far has the Basil project come so far?
Well, I have made a rough cast in polyurethane and while he is far from perfect, this has made it possible to work out the flaws that he has.
I have made one copy for myself to play with and another to be modded to perfection. Well, hopefully. 😉
The later is what will then be used as a master for the final molds. I will likely use a casting service for this as I suspect it will take some time before I have good casting facilities set up at the new place and I can’t hope to get a professional result with what I currently have.
